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    Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view...
    61 KB (7,653 words) - 11:54, 26 March 2024
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    Germania (book) (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    origine et situ Germanorum), is a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic peoples outside the Roman Empire. The Germania begins with a description...
    17 KB (1,892 words) - 23:09, 8 February 2024
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    period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age. The period includes the Hiberno-Scottish...
    12 KB (1,496 words) - 20:31, 6 January 2024
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    Aethiopia (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    Ancient Aethiopia, (Greek: Αἰθιοπία, romanized: Aithiopía; also known as Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference...
    24 KB (2,559 words) - 10:53, 13 March 2024
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    Hyperborea (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    Project. Bar-Kochva, Bezalel (1997). "Chapter VI.3: The Structure of an Ethnographical Work". Pseudo-Hecataeus, "On the Jews" : legitimizing the Jewish dispora...
    39 KB (4,310 words) - 19:43, 9 March 2024
  • "White" in reference to their skin color is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not...
    175 KB (17,830 words) - 05:33, 26 March 2024
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    Histories (Herodotus) (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    variously considered "father of comparative anthropology," "the father of ethnography," and "more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to...
    74 KB (8,607 words) - 19:59, 20 March 2024
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    Getica (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    their barbarian cousins did not belong to the Roman world, thus justifying the claims of the Eastern Roman Empire to hegemony over the western part. A manuscript...
    23 KB (3,032 words) - 13:19, 20 December 2023
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    Gallia Celtica (category Pre-Roman Gaul)
    Luxembourg and the west bank of the Rhine in Germany. According to Roman ethnography and Julius Caesar in his narrative Commentaries on the Gallic War...
    8 KB (288 words) - 15:22, 10 March 2024
  • upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in Graeco-Roman ethnography. The etymology of this name and that of the Gauls Γαλάται Galátai...
    27 KB (3,494 words) - 02:24, 29 June 2023
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    Thinae (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    Chinese themselves, the first kingdom of Sin, or China, was founded. Sino-Roman relations Names of China Silk Road Tenduc Luoyang Ptol. Geog. vii. 3. §...
    3 KB (277 words) - 22:16, 6 January 2024
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    ethnography and does not appear to have been given any interpretatio romana, perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon...
    25 KB (2,817 words) - 15:07, 28 March 2024
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    White Aethiopians (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    Aethiopians (Λευκαιθίοπες ; Leucæthiopes) is a term found in ancient Greco-Roman literature, which may have referred to various light-complexioned populations...
    13 KB (1,489 words) - 20:41, 18 September 2023
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    Frankish Table of Nations (category Greco-Roman ethnography)
    Vandals, Gepids, Saxons, Burgundians, Thuringians, Lombards, Bavarians, Romans, Bretons, Franks and Alamanni. The Table is called "Frankish" after the...
    37 KB (4,750 words) - 12:34, 12 November 2023
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    century onward. Coloured terminology is occasionally found in Graeco-Roman ethnography and other ancient and medieval sources, but these societies did not...
    76 KB (8,604 words) - 22:33, 25 March 2024
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    about tribal societies are external descriptions such as from Greco-Roman ethnography, which identified societies, surrounding the societies of the ethnographers...
    19 KB (2,207 words) - 08:34, 27 February 2024
  • faith or experience. Celtic and Germanic religion was described by Roman ethnography as primitive, but at the same time as pure or unspoiled compared to...
    12 KB (1,215 words) - 17:51, 18 March 2024
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    inscriptions and quite detailed references in Greco-Roman ethnography (most notably by Ptolemy). The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain in the 1st century...
    93 KB (9,987 words) - 00:59, 25 March 2024
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    Viking Age depend on archaeology and on a few accounts in Greco-Roman ethnography. Roman writer Tacitus reported the Suebians making human sacrifices to...
    137 KB (15,222 words) - 14:37, 5 March 2024
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    (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, negative mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age. The introduction of Christianity...
    104 KB (11,785 words) - 18:58, 22 February 2024
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